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Originally Posted by David

It seems very likely to me that the negative reputation this pamor has received in Jawa is due to a confusion and misunderstanding of words.

David,
I think not merely due to a confusion and misunderstanding of words. Javanese people used to relate their opinions with reality, daily and personal reality. This is a hypothesis: There was maybe a misfortune experience of certain Javanese authority in the past (usually, he was king or ruler) relating to such pamor. So, maybe it was a kind of "authoritarian truth". What the ruler's saying (based on his own experience), regarded by certain Javanese people -- to be the truth.

I will try to find example of this. Once I've found such case, while I was reading the Babad Tanah Jawi (a Historiography of Jawa). Someone said in the babad: "Don't use such and such keris, because it will bring misfortune for everybody...," I will try to find this example, in Babad Tanah Djawi (Republished in Javanese latin character, by a Groningen Dutch publisher around 1938).

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